You likely have all the tools you need to make accurate copies of crown molding you can't find at the home center.| Fine Homebuilding
Getting perfect seams when installing crown molding can be a challenge. Walls and ceilings are frequently out of square, and there are vaulted ceilings to consider. Sometimes, even with my awesome crown molding templates, you| Sawdust Girl
When you're installing any kind of trim: baseboards, casings, rails, or crown molding, sometimes you are working with a VERY LONG wall and you just can't manage to get it covered with a single run| Sawdust Girl
When installing trim molding where it doesn't terminate into a wall, cabinet or other structure that allows you to simply cut the end straight – a mitered return will give you a professional finished end.| Sawdust Girl
Crown is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to add architectural interest and WOW to any room, but it can be a bit tricky to install. Here are my favorite tips and tricks that| Sawdust Girl
This tutorial explains how to cut crown molding flat, on any miter saw (provided your molding isn't wider than your saw's cutting area). It's easy to get confused about which side of what corner you're| Sawdust Girl
Installing crown molding on the angled ceiling in my studio was 100 times easier than I...| Sawdust Girl
Developing and Producing Rake Crown with a Shaper and Band Saw The most important part of carpentry is design. If the design isn’t right, if the drawings are mediocre or worse, no amount of joinery skills will save a project from failure. Unfortunately, executing proper drawings prior to cutting wood and creating sawdust isn’t a... Read the full article| THISisCarpentry
Traditional Methods for Developing and Producing Rake Moldings The required joinery for a molding that transitions from level to rake around a corner frequently puzzles many carpenters. At first glance it appears that it should work, but upon experimentation, it can be maddening to find out that it won’t. A Note from the Publisher: NOTE:... Read the full article| THISisCarpentry
Drawing and Developing Rake Crown Profiles A little over a year ago we published an article about Eave Returns. While the focus of that article was about creating a “Poor Man’s Return,” we continue to receive comments and emails asking about how to develop the required molding profiles for a “Classical” eave return and pediment.... Read the full article| THISisCarpentry
While this article won’t teach you everything about crown molding, it will get you started on the right foot! This is the crown molding demonstration we’ve been using at the Katz Roadshow. In fact, you may have seen Mike Sloggatt and Rick Arnold doing the same presentation. If you missed a point or two, or... Read the full article| THISisCarpentry
SawGear has improved their digital miter saw stop system and the improvements are worth knowing about. The system is still expensive—out of the range of most finish carpenters—but for production crews, or for companies that pre-cut a lot of moldings in their shop, the new improvements are a game changer. A few years ago, when... Read the full article| THISisCarpentry
Years ago, in a Fine Homebuilding article, I explained how to build corbels for an Italianate mirror frame. I ran out of pages in that short article before I could discuss how to layout the pediment. I have plenty of room here, so I’ll cover that part of the story, and I’ll include all the material that we couldn’t fit into the Fine Homebuilding Master Carpenter article.| THISisCarpentry